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<p>The 2015 JLab Users Group Annual Meeting will take place on June
1-3rd at Jefferson Lab. The program includes a variety of physics
talks, presentations from the User Group Board, laboratory
management and funding agencies, and Prize winners. Featured
speakers will include: Stephan Paul from Technical University of
Munich, Naoko Kurahashi Neilson from U. of Delaware, Marco
Stratmann from Univ. of Tubingen, Michael Thoennessen from
Michigan State U. and Tony Thomas from Univ. of Adelaide. Also
speaking will be the chair of the NSAC, Don Geesaman from Argonne
National Lab and the Assoc. Director of Science at DOE, Tim
Hallman.</p>
<p>Your participation is important, and we strongly urge everyone to
register now (<a href="http://conferences.jlab.org/ugm/index.html"
target="_blank">http://conferences.jlab.org/ugm/index.html</a>),
and make plans to attend. We particularly encourage graduate
students to attend the annual meeting. The Jefferson Science
Associates Initiatives Fund has again sponsored our waiving
student registration fees. We will again have special lunch
discussions for the graduate students where free food is available
each day of the meeting.</p>
<p>The Users Group Board will meet on the evenings of June 2nd and
3rd .If you have comments, questions, or issues to be raised at
the meeting, please let one of the board members know.</p>
The poster competition continues, with a first prize of $500, a
second prize of $250, and a third prize of $100.
<strong>*New this year*</strong>, each winner will additionally
receive $500 in travel support to present their work at a meeting of
their choosing.The deadline for poster competition abstracts is
Friday, May 22nd, 2015 (email
<a href="mailto:to:lorelei@jlab.org" target="_blank">to:lorelei@jlab.org)</a>.
You cannot win if you do not enter!
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